May 18, 2018 · Balkan Mountains Major mountain range of the Balkan Peninsula, extending from e Serbia through central Bulgaria to the Black Sea. The range is a continuation of the Carpathian …

May 11, 2018 · Balkan Wars two wars of 1912–13 that were fought over the last European territories of the Ottoman Empire. In 1912 Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, and Montenegro forced Turkey to give up …

THE BALKANS Maria Bucur Definitions of the Balkans employ a variety of criteria. Geographically, the Balkans occupy the lands south of the Danube and Sava Rivers to Istanbul, encompassing the …

BALKAN COUNTRIES BALKAN COUNTRIES. Countries on the Balkan Peninsula, a region in southeastern Europe, are bounded by the Adriatic and the Ionian seas in the west, the …

May 29, 2018 · BALKAN WARS (1912–1913) >Warfare among the states of the Balkan Peninsula [1] that affected the >balance-of-power politics in Europe [2] and contributed to the outbreak of >World …

Balkan states Group of countries in the Balkan Peninsula, se Europe, consisting of Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, and European Turkey. From …

Aug 24, 2016 · Adriatic Sea (ādrēă´tĬk), arm of the Mediterranean Sea [1], between Italy and the Balkan Peninsula [2]. It extends c.500 mi (800 km) from the Gulf of Venice, at its head, SE to the Strait of …

BALKAN CRISES (1870S) Regional unrest led to independence for much of the peninsula but no permanent solutions. Source for information on Balkan Crises (1870s): Encyclopedia of the Modern …

Jun 11, 2018 · Iberian Peninsula Part of sw Europe occupied by Spain and Portugal, separated from Africa by the Strait of Gibraltar and from the rest of Europe by the Pyrenees Mountains. The early …

Greece is the southernmost country in the Balkan Peninsula, with a total area of 131,940 sq km (50,942 sq mi); about a fifth of the area is composed of more than 1,400 islands in the Ionian and Aegean seas.